This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with circa 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Peter Josef William Debye, Friedrich Dessauer, Paul Sophus Epstein, Peter Paul Ewald, P. H. R. von Groth, Paul Knipping, Max Theodor Felix von Laue, W. C. Rn̲tgen, Arnold Sommerfeld; Universitt̃ Frankfurt, Universitt̃ M nchen.

Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966

Dessauer, Friedrich

Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966

Ewald, Paul Peter, 1888-1985

Friedrich, Walter, 1883-1968.

Groth, P. H. R. von

Knipping, Paul

Laue, Max von, 1879-1960

Rn̲tgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951

Universitt̃ Frankfurt am Main.

Universitt̃ M nchen.

Atomic theory.

Nuclear physics.

Quantum theory

Science -- History.

Oral histories. aat

Interviews. aat

Sound recordings lcgft

Transcripts. aat

Physicists -- Interviews. lcsh

Heilbron, J. L. interviewer.

Hertz, Gustav, 1887- interviewer.

Kahan, Theo, 1904- interviewer.

AIP-ICOS

American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Archives for the History of Quantum Physics.